On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:48:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> There was the possibility of mentioning the poll in DPN, but it was noted
> that the deadline already passed. It was suggested that the poll was quite
> short. It was suggested a more widely advertised and longer running
> selectricity poll might have been a good idea. It was noted that the email
> poll was simply an internal decision making tool. Someone thought that it
> was kinda weird to have the poll only limited to this list.

I'd agree that the poll period was way too short.

I don't think a poll should be necessary at all, in future. I think it should
be a collective decision of the relevant maintainers. We don't micro-poll for
every other packaging decision, and that's effectively what this is. If a
maintainer makes a genuinely contentious decision, we have routines in place
to deal with that.